“…though it’s given the confusing name of 2 Series Gran Coupe.”

I don’t understand white interiors. Even if you keep your hands crystal clean (which, ok Rain Man) I’ve read that even wearing jeans will eventually transfer color onto white. They look great in pictures and at auto shows but is anyone actually daily driving/using white interiors?

White seats are a bad idea. White steering wheel is an even worse idea.

They weren’t using the direct injection injectors, only port injection. Without the fuel flow to keep it cool, one of the injectors melted. The sparks were from the combustion leaving the engine.

The haters always puzzled me on this aspect of it. BMW has been making performance-oriented straight 6 engines for longer (and more successfully) than Toyota. It makes sense Toyota would go to them for an engine intended to go into a low-volume sports car that will not bring in enough money to justify developing an…

This is great! On the other hand, I don’t think the BMW tuners are that surprised...

Please let today be the day

car bad name

how dare you besmirch my writing by implying that this take is good

Is this Ballaban’s first decent take?
*checks history*
... Might be!

Something seemed wrong about the previous story’s numbers, and indeed, now we know that it was wrong. I’m glad we’ve got a bit more context behind why.

The M2 is the softer, more comfy daily driver that’s still very practical. I rented one on vacation for a few days and hooned it like crazy. My wife asked me why I got a comfy luxury car that didn’t seem like me. I had a blast though. She’s been in a friend’s GT350 and she wasn’t comfortable and never wants to ride in…

People who want an M2? <shrug>

I think whats happening is that BMW is using the FWD based one to compete against the new A-Class. The next gen 2-series coupe will then compete against the CLA and BMW will be able to point to it and say “see! We actually care about performance, the CLA is just an A-Class underneath, but our 2-Series coupe actually…

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Your job sounds legitimately interesting.

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This.

That's exactly right.